Restore Britain is a pressure group-turned-political party headed by Rupert Lowe MP that aims to “shift the discourse” on immigration dramatically to the right.

After being elected as a Reform UK MP in Great Yarmouth in 2024, Lowe – a former chairman of Southampton Football Club and ex-Brexit Party MEP – soon cemented himself as Britain’s most extreme MP. In February 2025, he broke with the party line to praise the serial criminal and anti-Muslim extremist Stephen Lennon (AKA Tommy Robinson) and was recorded making an antisemitic remark in parliament. 

In March 2025, Lowe had the Reform whip withdrawn over allegations of bullying, which he denied. This came days after he described Reform as “a protest party led by the Messiah” in an interview with the Daily Mail. 

Since his split with Reform, Lowe has become increasingly radical, provoking excitement on the fascist fringe. His extremeness is reflected in the output of Restore Britain, which he originally launched as a pressure group on 30 June, the same day ex-Reform deputy leader Ben Habib set up the Advance UK party. At the time, Lowe called Restore Britain “a movement for those who believe that we need to fundamentally change the way Britain is governed”, adding that “significantly more legal migrants must leave than enter” Britain. 

Two young far-right activists, Charlie Downes and Harrison Pitt, serve as Restore’s campaigns director and senior policy fellow respectively. Both have media careers of their own and advocate for “remigration”. In September 2025, Downes said that “what is desirable is an ethnically homogenous Christian Britain”. 

Ethnonationalists and other extremists duly flocked to the group. Last summer, one ex-member of the fascist Homeland Party told HOPE not hate: “Everyone I spoke to in Homeland claimed to have signed up for Restore membership.” The group has been praised by many of the UK’s leading neo-Nazis, with Steve Laws dubbing it the “best option” for achieving his desired ethnic cleansing. The neo-Nazi Sam Wilkes (AKA Zoomer Historian) has described Lowe as “a true hero” who is “normalising our talking points in parliament”. The leadership of Patriotic Alternative has also celebrated Lowe and Restore.

As a pressure group, Restore claimed to operate a form of “direct democracy” in which members can vote on policy, giving the extremists within the membership a route to drive it ever further to the right. Audience capture is another apparent factor in Lowe’s increasingly racist and authoritarian output on X, where he has a 625,000-strong following.

Restore also established close links to Lotus Eaters Media, with Lowe, Pitt and Downes regularly appearing as guests. The outlet routinely pushes its viewers to sign up to Restore, describing it as “our battering ram”. 

On 19 August, Restore announced a swathe of policy positions, including proposals to “defund the BBC”, have “net negative immigration”, and use “deliberately austere” tent camps to house asylum seekers. On 9 October, the group also published a 105-page policy document titled Mass Deportations: Legitimacy, Legality, and Logistics. Written by Lowe and Pitt, the document proffered an extreme plan for the removal of asylum seekers. It called for “the mass deportation of every single illegal migrant” to be achieved by “a hostile environment aimed at fostering a culture of self-deportation, combined with somewhere between 150,000 and 200,000 forced removals per year”. The document also proposed: 

“All asylum and humanitarian protections granted to individuals who entered Britain illegally within the last decade should be rescinded in full, and those individuals deported within a reasonable time period.” 

Worryingly, both a GB News correspondent, Steven Edginton, and an aide of Conservative MP Katie Lam, Sam Bidwell, were thanked for “trusty friendship or helpful conversations” in the acknowledgements of the extreme document. In October, Amar Johal – who has been a senior policy adviser to Reform since November – praised the document as “a thorough and detailed analysis from the impressive” Harrison Pitt. 

Restore also supported the wave of anti-migrant protests that swept the country this summer, sponsoring the “Pink Ladies” movement. Lowe was also an enthusiastic backer of the “Raise the Colours” movement. 

On 13 February 2026, Lowe launched Restore Britain as a political party. He released a seven-minute video, in which he told his followers: “The first priority is to control who comes to our country and, more importantly, who stays in our country. Restore Britain will not just stop mass immigration, we will reverse it… For the foreseeable future, far more people must leave Britain than arrive.” By 15 February, Lowe announced that Restore had gained 50,000 members. 

Among the far-right figures and groups who have expressed support for this new party are Lotus Eaters, Michael Wright (AKA Morgoth), Neema Parvini (AKA Academic Agent), Sam Wilkes (AKA Zoomer Historian), Tom Moffit (AKA Young Bob), Katie Hopkins, Steve Laws, Hugh Anthony and Callum Barker (ex-Homeland member). Restore’s support base straddles the divide between civic nationalists and ethnic nationalists on the far right, a coalition which could fracture in future. 

As of mid-February 2026, whether an accommodation will be reached between Restore and Advance UK remains unclear. On 14 February, Advance leader Ben Habib offered to merge with Restore. By 16 February, however, he said he hadn’t received a response, posting on social media: “The offer stands. The ball is in Restore’s court. Until then it is business as usual.” 

Whether Restore will prove to be a significant electoral threat remains to be seen. In any case, the pressure group-turned-political party has been determined to shift political and media conversation on immigration even further to the right, by advocating positions more extreme than those currently adopted by Reform UK.